Example sentences of "for a [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finishes off by saying , erm , our Youth Committee Chairman , Roland have a forward looking attitude to developing and improving youth for many years to come , for as many boys as possible , and we would like to apply for a grant for a thousand pound to cover the cost of providing these new kits for three teams . |
| 2 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 3 | awareness of the immediate claims of the Broad Strategy eg the claim for a 32 hour , 4 day week , etc ; |
| 4 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |
| 5 | The terms are 225p cash a share — 20 times brokers ' 1992 earnings forecasts — but five of Worcester 's top managers , including chairman Cecil Duckworth , are exchanging most of their holdings for a 32 p.c. stake in the new Bosch subsidiary that will own the business . |
| 6 | Captain Scarlet is to make his comeback to our TV screens on October 1 at 6.30pm on BBC 2 for a 32 week run . |
| 7 | A year later , in the year of the Beeching Report on the railways and the abolition of the death penalty in Britain , the pound had shifted to the equivalent of £8.56 today , so £2732.24 for a 289 Cobra means £23,388 in 1990 . |
| 8 | However , the Freight Transport Association points out that Vehicle Excise Duty for a 38 tonne lorry in France is £690 a year compared to £3,100 in this country . |
| 9 | It had reservations about a proposal from Crewe and Alsager , and in the case of the Berkshire College recognized that the proposed DipHE linked with a BEd proposal undergoing revisions for a 1974 start , and with a BA that had not yet been submitted . |
| 10 | A pushover try by scrum-half Chris Tynan and another by Gray put the result beyond doubt with Rees kicking a conversion and a second penalty for a 22–0 lead before Gale hit back with a drop-goal and a penalty providing the USA with reward for pressure . |
| 11 | Florida killing spoils Disney World dream for a million holiday Brits |
| 12 | Our old deep-sea mate Jaws , responsible for a million castration complexes , apparently |
| 13 | Net earnings per share , adjusted for a one-for-ten consolidation on February 26 rose 117.6% to $0.37 in the year . |
| 14 | Secondly , from the point of view of lexical discrimination , Zue in the above paper summarizes studies which looked at equivalence class sizes for a 20,000 word lexicon represented using six broad phonetic categories . |
| 15 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 16 | Manager Lennie Lawrence is looking for a 20,000 crowd and three points against the runaway leaders . |
| 17 | It uses Dermalogica products combined with massage to relieve tension by working on pressure points and costs only £10 for a 45 minute session . |
| 18 | They include a 17-year-old shop assistant being paid £50 for a 45 hour week ; an apprentice panel beater working 44 hours for £42.50 a week ; and a 17-year old secretary working 45 hours a week for a plant hire firm for a gross wage of £50 . |
| 19 | They owed much to their New Zealand coach , Murray Kidd , for a 20–9 victory which put them a point ahead of the rest , Shannon being thrust down to second place . |
| 20 | • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL |
| 21 | Simon Lawler , prosecuting asked for a 14 day adjournment so that the charges against the two officers could be finalised . |
| 22 | They were convicted for a 1986 bombing in which two people were killed at the Wild Coast Sun , a gambling resort overlooking the Indian Ocean . |
| 23 | For a 16 colour monitor , there would be four such sequences of bytes in different blocks of memory , each starting from a different base address . |
| 24 | It replace Open Desktop server system as Santa Cruz 's high-end offering and costs from £1,850 for a 16 user licence on CD-ROM to £2,875 for a 512 user licence on 3.5 ’ disks . |
| 25 | It replace Open Desktop server system as SCO 's high-end offering and costs from £1,850 for a 16 user licence on CD-ROM to £2,875 for a 512 user licence on 3.5 ’ disks . |
| 26 | It is priced at £1,570 for a 16 user licence on CD-ROM to £2,280 for up to 512 users on 3.5' disks . |
| 27 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 28 | Now older and perhaps a little more clay-wise , with a win already this year over Monica Seles at Key Biscayne and with her father Stefano as her coach once again , she may well be settled enough to go all the way for the first time , which of course , would be a remarkable achievement for a 16 year old . |
| 29 | A general rule is to use a higher number thread with a lower number needle so , for a 70 needle use 80 denier thread , and for a 110 needle use a 40 thread . |
| 30 | Terry Gibson was on target twice to help Wimbledon eclipse Port Vale 3-0 for a 5-1 win on aggregate . |